Sheet Set Manager & Drawing Revision Numbers

[Anonymous]

I'm new to SSM and have an existing project that has a large number of sheets already set up.

Each sheet had its own revision number controlled by the SSM.

I can only change the revision numbers individually from the sheet set manager.

If I wanted to do a global change to the revision numbers and change them all to the same revision number, I assume that I can only do this one at a time in the SSM.  Or is there some way to apply this as a global change in one shot?  I'd have to do this without breaking the original links.

I can't see any way of doing this but as I'm new to SSM I wanted to check that I've understood things right.

[john.vellek]

Hi @Anonymous,

If you want to assign a revision number on a set basis rather than a sheet basis, you can create Custom property for the Sheetset. Then you just need to update the titleblock field to read it rather than the sheet revision property.

Does this make sense? If not, and you can perhaps attach a sample titleblock I can make a video for you or do some screen captures.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

[rkmcswain · Accepted solution]

Tcaddy wrote:

I'm new to SSM and have an existing project that has a large number of sheets already set up.

Each sheet had its own revision number controlled by the SSM.

I can only change the revision numbers individually from the sheet set manager.

If I wanted to do a global change to the revision numbers and change them all to the same revision number, I assume that I can only do this one at a time in the SSM.

You cannot do what you want with Sheet Set Manager, however there is a great 3^rd party tool (SSMPropEditor) that can do this. You’ll recover what it costs pretty quickly.

You could also do what @john.vellek suggests and remap everything to a single “SheetSet” property, but if you are going to do this, then just put your change as TEXT or MTEXT in the title block/border drawing. There is really no need for a SSM custom property for the SheetSet since the value will always be the same for every sheet.

[Anonymous]

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply.  Yes that confirms what I thought.  I wondered if it was possible to do the changes across multiple sheets without losing the original data links to the individual sheets. 

Seems this is not possible from SSM.

[Anonymous]

Hi rkmcswain,

Thanks for your reply.  That is helpful to know.

I wonder if Autodesk could incorporate the additional functionality into the SSM for a future release? 

Much appreciated.

[rkmcswain]

Tcaddy wrote:

I wonder if Autodesk could incorporate the additional functionality into the SSM for a future release? 

Could they? Of course?

Will they? Well, myself and others have been asking and waiting on a lot of features for SSM, since it came out over a decade ago, and nothing yet.

But, no reason to wait, SSMPRopEditor already does it and it's what...? A half-hour of billable time?

BTW: You can go to the augi wish list and make your case there, or slip it into the Civil 3D IdeaStation, but there is no AutoCAD IdeaStation here.

[nextvkin]

Came across this very old thread, but just in case someone else wants to know, it can be done. You need to delete the existing field for the revision numbers and create a new one using custom sheet properties, and give it a default value of whatever you want the revision for the sheets to be. This way all the sheets will have the same revision code, and you can still change the revision code individually later if you want to because it's a custom sheet property not custom sheetset

property.